There are sixteen counties in the Eastern Chu State, Wu Jie's hometown Zhaoyang County is located in the west, and Baitu County, where the national capital is located, is located in the easternmost part, close to the East China Sea. Changning City, the capital of the country, itself is the premier port on the coast of the East China Sea, relying on the smooth navigation of the sea, and the rare treasures and strange people from all over the world gather here, and magical anecdotes are circulated from time to time.

Wu Xie walked on the road for more than half a month, and it was not until the beginning of May that he came to Changning City.

He was dressed simply, covered in dust, and carrying a medicine box, and at a glance he knew that he was You Fang Langzhong. This status is also quite popular, and the entrance tax is exempted when entering the city, which is a good sign.

Although he has seen many cities along the way, and although he has seen many large cities with vast areas and large populations in his previous life, Wu Xie was still deeply moved by its majesty after seeing Changning City.

The city was so vast that it was thirty-three miles from the east gate to the west gate, and twenty-eight miles from the south gate to the north gate. Its city wall is more than ten zhang, which is higher than twenty Wu Jie, and several gatehouse fortresses have reached fourteen or fifteen zhang, and even more than many "small high-rises" that Wu Xie saw before crossing.

The city is home to more than a million people, at least a tenth of whom are merchants, and twice as many as that number depend on dealing with merchants, such as bodyguards, chariots, horses, and husbands. As the capital of the Eastern Chu State, there are 100,000 forbidden troops stationed in this city, and all the innocent Eastern Chu citizens in the city must receive regular military training, and even all the people can be soldiers if necessary.

The dignified national capital and the world-famous port, the luxury of Changning City is naturally not a problem. Just when he was queuing up at the city gate to enter the city, Wu Xie saw a lot of people wearing expensive silk clothes, and he saw a lot of people leading horses. There is a lack of grassland in the Eastern Chu Kingdom, and the cost of raising horses is very high, even in places such as stagecoach and horse shops, most of them are pack horses, and healthy horses are already rare, but what he sees here are at least the first level of horses, and there are even a few horses that are qualified to be called famous horses!

"I remember reading it in a book, saying that the people in Bianliang City in the Northern Song Dynasty were very rich, so rich that the soldiers guarding the city gate were wearing silk shoes......" Wu Xie looked very carefully when he entered the door, but he didn't see any soldiers wearing silk shoes, because they were all wearing a complete set of armor, and the texture was even better than the kind that only a few senior officers in the county could afford to wear!

A complete set of armor consists of helmets, half-body armor, gauntlets, hand guards, waist pads, leg pads, knee pads, shin guards, and boots, which can provide the wearer with comprehensive protection, but at the cost of physical strength and money. Regardless of physical strength for the time being, in terms of money, even the lowest full set of armor costs a thousand taels of silver, and the price of a slightly more advanced one will more than double.

When passing by the Zhaoyang County Government, Wu Xie once visited the armor shop, where there was a beautiful set of armor to attract customers, and he asked the price curiously, but was despised by the guys.

"This set of armor, regardless of the materials for the time being, requires hundreds of skilled craftsmen to work for three months to make it by manual labor. You are a wandering man, and there may not be a craftsman who makes much money when you go south and north, so why do you ask this? ”

If it is replaced by the protagonist of some Long Aotian series stories, he should throw out a large sum of money to slap his face at this time, but Wu Xie knows his family background very well, touches his nose and leaves.

What a joke! The labor cost alone, this armor is sky-high, where can he afford it!

A craftsman who can make armor can earn about forty to fifty taels of silver a year, and hundreds of craftsmen are busy for three months, that is at least a thousand taels of silver! At the beginning, he only sold a three-grade ginseng for 800 taels!

At that time, Jasmine and Du Ruo were very indignant, Jasmine thought that she should carry forward the spirit of killing decisively and strangle the guy who looked down on people, and Du Ruo suggested that Wu Xie come over at night and steal the armor and throw it into the Heavenly Book World Realm - Wu Xie guessed that she might be blushing at the beautiful set of armor, after all, the armor on the martial arts training ground is really too bad compared to it.

Wu Xie didn't take their advice in the end, he didn't feel the need to kill or steal for a little leisure, not to mention that the armor was actually not of much use to him - since he ignited the pure yang true fire, he had been refining his body with the real fire repeatedly, and now the defense of the physical body was only stronger than this armor, and wearing it not only did not work, but would affect the flexibility of his actions.

That being said, he was still deeply shocked when he saw that the guards at the gate of Changning City were all wearing full sets of armor.

"Is it necessary to spend so much money to equip the guards with such an exaggerated appearance? It's better to collect less taxes and let the people live a better life......"

Thinking all the way, Wu Xie walked into Changning City.

After entering Changning City, he didn't see anything particularly amazing to him. Perhaps for Du Ruo, the shops filled with a wide variety of goods are rare, the buildings that are often four or five stories high are spectacular, and the roads that are large enough for a dozen people to walk side by side are wide. But in Wu Jie's view, that's it.

He had come from the prosperous 21st century, and before he crossed over, he was considered a middle-class person, and he could afford to go all over the country to seek medical treatment, and even go abroad to seek medical treatment. The prosperity of Changning City is nothing compared to those modern metropolises.

"It turns out that it's just like that......" Wu Jie, who was still looking around while walking like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden at the beginning, soon lost his interest in watching the excitement, and according to what he heard on the road, he went to the residential area in the west of the city to find an inn.

The layout of Changning City is as follows: the imperial palace is in the north, and the outside of the palace is the barracks of the forbidden army and various yamen of the imperial court. Commoners lived in the west of the city, and the families of the officials and nobles lived in the east of the city, near the port.

The city is home to four rivers, some natural and some artificial, that provide ample water for the city's inhabitants and serve as hubs of transportation. In particular, the Wei River, which runs through the city, is visited by many boats every day, carrying goods from the port to the markets located throughout the city.

Compared with car transportation, water transportation is undoubtedly cheaper and more efficient, unless it is some high-priced or water-sensitive goods, otherwise the merchants of Changning City would rather use water transportation to save costs.

Wu Jie's "Taiping Inn" is located on the riverside of the Wei River, and from the window of the guest room, you can always see the cargo ship passing by, which is also quite an interesting scenery.

Taiping Inn is a famous big merchant in Changning City, there are many semicolons, and Wu Xie lives in one of the semicolons. This room of his is small, estimated to be no more than eight square meters. The things inside were also very simple, a single bed, a table against the wall, a cabinet nailed to the wall, not even a chair or stool. If you want to sit down and rest, you have to sit on the bed.

It's just such a hut, the rent is as high as a penny a day, and it doesn't include food, it's really expensive!

Wu Xie sat down on the bed, rummaged through the medicine box, and only found about a dozen taels of broken silver.

He is really not a person who is good at financial management, although he has made a lot of money along the way, he can earn more and spend more. The point is that he doesn't have much money to save, and as long as he has plenty of money, compassion will overflow. Every time I make money, I can't help but go to the poor for free clinics, which naturally do not charge money, and often pay a lot of money for medicines. So now, there is only a little bit of the 100 taels of silver that I brought when I went out.

"It's not going to go on like this!" He weighed the little pieces of silver, put them in his purse, and thought about how to make money.

Not to mention that it costs money to find immortals, if he doesn't find a way to make money, he will soon be sleeping on the streets!

"I saw it on the road just now, and there are also osmanthus cakes for sale here!" Du Ruo said excitedly, "Let's go and try it!" ”

Through this period of continuous absorption of yin qi and cultivation, Du Ruo has successfully condensed his soul and cultivated to the point where he can touch the real thing. And for her, that meant she could eat—perhaps the most urgent thing she was to do.

But Wu Xie just shook his head, osmanthus cake was originally a high-priced dim sum, and the things in Changning City were very expensive, if they didn't control their mouths well, they would have to drink the northwest wind in two days.

"Then let's go and make two deals that don't have the capital." Jasmine suggested, "I see that there are a lot of rich families in this city, and if you find two of them to make a fortune, it will be enough to eat and drink for a long time." ”

She took it for granted, and didn't take the matter of being a traitor to heart at all.

"This Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in Changning City, let's be honest." Wu Xie dismissed Jasmine's suggestion.

"Then go to a nearby city and get some money and come back." Jasmine was really good, and immediately changed her plan, "As long as you go farther, you don't have to be afraid of meeting masters." ”

Wu Xie couldn't help but sigh deeply.

There is a long way to go to correct Jasmine's morality!

He didn't bother to discuss with Jasmine whether or not to rob and how to rob, and as soon as his eyes rolled, he thought of more important topics.

"Jasmine, you said that many immortal sects will recruit disciples in big cities such as the national capital. Now that we've arrived, let's go and visit the fairy fate. ”

"But...... How do you make money in that case? Jasmine still remembered the plan of the robbery, "I think I should make a sum of money first, and only when I have money in my hand can I be sure!" ”

"I'm not in a hurry to make money, I can last a few days with the rest of my money. Let's go to find immortals first! Wu Xie ended the discussion without controversy.

After a good night's rest, at breakfast the next day, he asked the man at the inn if there were any traces of immortals in the city.

"That's the right question!" After receiving him ten yuan, the guy smiled and said, "We know the news in Changning City best!" ”

"Our Changning City, as the capital of the Great Chu State, is the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, whether it is a martial arts master or an immortal master."

"For example, the old man of Tiger Wing Hou Zhang Yuzhang in the east of the city, that is the great martial arts master who has been famous for hundreds of years, and he is powerful in the southeast. The people of the rivers and lakes call it 'Heavenly Sword Song'. He is strong in martial arts, at the age of twenty-five, he fought all over Changning's invincible opponents, and at the age of thirty-three, he went to sea in a small boat, and in the storm he broke through the limits that many masters had not been able to break through in his life, and stepped into the realm of innate martial arts...... Now more than a hundred years have passed, and no one knows what realm he has reached! ”

"I don't think you're a martial arts practitioner, so you have to consider the issue of cultivation. Outside the city, the master of Changchun Temple of Wanshou Mountain, Changchun Zhenren is a well-known master. He is a little older than Tiger Wing, but he has black hair and looks no different from a young man. Every year, many people go to Changchun to seek immortals and ask, among which there are many who have learned and succeeded, for example, the Huangya Temple in this city, the master of the view of Sun Huangya Sun Daochang is a disciple of Changchun Zhenren, this year is almost sixty years old, and it looks like thirty or forty years old. ”

"In addition to these two Baidao people, Xiang Yuntian, the leader of the Flying Shark Gang who likes to do water business, is also a peerless master, and once slashed a dragon that caused trouble on the sea with one person and one sword, and the dragon was more than thirty zhang long, and a big boat was dispatched to drag it back and present it to His Majesty. Xiang Gang Leader also got the reputation of 'Swallowing Shark'. ”

"If you like to learn miscellaneous science, Lord Ning Fengning of the Heavenly Prison is very knowledgeable, knows everything about astronomy and geography, and is even better at divination, calculation and the study of mechanism formations. can calculate the good fortune and evil fortune of the world, and can make flying wooden kites, and once set up a gossip maze...... The most rare thing is that he himself is still a master of cultivation, and it is said that he once studied under the real people of Changchun. ”

"In addition to these few, there may be other high-ranking people in our city, but that's not something that a young man like me can know. In short, if you want to ask for immortals, I think you should try to worship these few teachers, and there is a little hope. ”